Category Archives: Fitting Words

“If a collection of good men and women speaking well is the most valuable commodity a culture can possess, then our school must establish eloquence as the goal for every student. As it is, rarely do we coordinate the way students learn and the ways in which they will perform as leaders. Rarely do we connect the things we teach them every day with their responsibilities to seek the greater good and to draw their friends and neighbors after them. How will our students use language to benefit their neighbors? Will words and the ideas embodied in them come easily, or will our students simply be good men and women, possessing discernment but without the capacity to benefit those around them through appropriate speech and noble deeds?”

— Dr. Robert Littlejohn, Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning

Here are some of the original illustrations going into it, from illustrator George Harrell.

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Developing Memory

Patrick Henry (1736–1799).Henry was American founding father, orator, and governor of Virginia who advocated anti-federalism.“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” —“Give Me Liberty”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC).Cicero was a Roman statesman and philosopher, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest orators of all time.“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.”—Orator ad M. Brutum XXXIV.120

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